Shared Memories and a Proposition
Yuki looks down as she comprehends what could happen and says softly, "Please, Sesshomaru. Not here. Can we wait till we stop for the night and go someplace more private to talk about what I dreamed?" She waited for what the collar was going to do to her, but nothing ever happened.
"As you wish, since it is so important to you that you would risk a punishment from the collar, rather than to tell me." Sesshomaru says as he keeps on walking, wondering why he gave her such a detailed explanation.
They walked for most of the day with Rin playing with Jaken, instead of Yuki, while Yuki walked right where she was, with her head down, the whole way. Sesshomaru noticed this and wondered why she was just walking and not paying any attention to Rin at all, or even trying to annoy him. It was amazing that she could actually not talk and be good company for once.
Good company, Sesshomaru? Are you falling for this hanyou?
No! She just makes good company when she isn't trying to get on my last nerve or talking incessantly.
I think that you are really starting to like her. What would be so bad with that? She seems eloquent enough, she may make a good teacher for Rin and who knows what the power is that she is hiding, it may make you even stronger than you are now. Think of the advantages of what it could be.
I don't care of the advantages. My getting stronger has nothing to do with some hanyou that cannot even keep herself from Naraku long enough to save a little girl. I had to keep her safe from Naraku while she ran away to save Rin. Then, I have to save her from Kagura.
You do remember that she was poisoned, don't you? She fell over a root that the poison was keeping her from seeing.
Stop making excuses for her. This discussion is over.
Sesshomaru didn't show any outward appearance of an inward fight with his youkai, but he did wonder if his mind was correct. It could not be true and he would never act on such a foolish notion. She was a hanyou and he would not let her worm her way into his heart. It was frozen, after all.
When they finally stopped for the night, Rin seemed to be starving and Yuki went up to Sesshomaru and said, "Sesshomaru, may I have permission to go and get food for Rin and Jaken?"
"You will call me 'Sesshomaru-Sama', not just 'Sesshomaru', and no. Jaken, go get some food for Rin, yourself, and Yuki."
"Yes, milord." Jaken stated hesitantly at being commanded to do something for a human and a hanyou.
"Sesshomaru-Sama, I am not hungry. He does not need to get me anything."
"Jaken, just you and Rin, then."
"Sesshomaru-Sama? May I ask why that I could not go and get the food?"
"It isn't your place to, woman, now be still and follow me." Sesshomaru stated as he walked toward Ah-Un. "Protect Rin while I am gone." The dragon could not reply, but it seemed to understand and Sesshomaru walked past it into the woods with Yuki following him. They walked for a while and finally came to a clearing where Sesshomaru walked half-way out and stopped by a large rock.
"Now, you will tell me what you were dreaming about last night and what that potion was that you took. You spoke almost all night about it."
"Sesshomaru, what is said between…" 'SLAP'
"I told you to call me 'Sesshomaru-Sama', wench.
"Yuki's head was turned to the side and she felt her cheek where he had slapped her. She didn't really think that he was the kind of person to do things like that, but maybe it was an alternative to using the collar. He seemed like he didn't want to use it.
"Please, Sesshomaru-Sama, what is said between us must stay confidential. It is important that it does because it could change many things."
"What is said will probably not need to be repeated, so that goes without saying. Tell me what you dreamed about."
"I will start with the potion. While Rin and I were playing the demon guessing game, I started to get flashbacks and realized something. What Naraku had said was not true." Yuki started while looking at the ground and speaking in a soft voice, but not so soft that Sesshomaru could not hear her. "He said that he had stole my memories, but he did not, he only hid them with some powerful spell or potion. I knew a concoction to give me my memories back. That was the potion that I drank that made me sleep.
"In my dreams, I found out that my father was still alive, but he is only alive in my dreams and mind. My father was a Unicorn youkai. A very rare demon, I was told. He also told me that my mother was a sorceress. This is where I get my human blood from. The combination, however, is unheard of and I am the only one like me of my kind. He said that my mother had some premonitions about me before she was murdered and that I would have a power that everyone would seek, something like the Shikon no Tama. A power that everyone could sense up close
"I have the power to grant wishes. My father told me that there are rules to my wish giving and that I would know them when I came in to my power. I have not yet unlocked it and so because of that, I do not know what those rules are. He said that when I unlocked them, that I would know it. This is why I did not want to go through it with you earlier, Sesshomaru-Sama. I did not want anyone eavesdropping, especially Naraku. Please, Sesshomaru-Sama, tell me that you will not tell anyone?"
Yuki was still looking at the ground and awaited Sesshomaru's answer. His answer came about five minutes after she lapsed into silence. "I will not tell anyone of your power. I do have a couple of stipulations, though." Yuki did not look up, but her shoulders visibly tensed as she awaited his stipulations. "When you do come in to your power, you must grant me a wish, if it is within your power. In exchange for this one wish, I will protect you until you find out how to use your power."
Of course. The only way to get him to agree with her is to follow by his rules too. She should have known that he would say something along those lines. The only thing that she knew to do was to agree to his rules, so she said, "I agree, Sesshomaru-Sama."
With all of her being, she tried to figure out if she had made the right decision or not, but she couldn't decide whether it was right or wrong for the life of her. She would just have to play it by ear.
"Now, I want to know what happened when Naraku had kidnapped you."
This question surprised her and she knew that there would be consequences to pay for her not telling him, but she refused to relive those days for this man in front of her. She just could not bring herself to tell him.
"Please do not take this the wrong way, Sesshomaru-Sama, but I cannot tell you what happened."
"Cannot or will not?" He asked without hesitation as if he knew she were going to do this.
Taking a deep breathe she said more confidently, "I will not tell you, Sesshomaru-Sama." As soon as it left her lips she felt the youkai that was in her from Sesshomaru react and fell to her knees in pain. The collar sent an electric bolt of energy into her and she felt it go right through her body.
"That is just a sample of what the collar can do. Tell me what happened."
All that Yuki could bring herself to do was shake her head and as soon as she did she felt the pain again. If she had her eyes opened, she would have seen a blue light course through her body with the power of the electricity. When the pain stopped, she was whimpering in pain. This was not good for her and she knew it, but she could not bring herself to tell him.
"Are you going to tell me, woman?" Sesshomaru asked in an aggravated voice and she shook her head again. "Very well. We will continue this tomorrow. I will get an answer from you." He started walking back towards camp and didn't turn around to see if she was following.
Yuki had plans to follow on her own after she had caught her breathe, but Sesshomaru had other plans. With a yank, the collar pulled her towards Sesshomaru and she could do nothing to stop it from taking her to him. He just kept walking with Yuki following in his wake, however unwillingly.
While they were walking toward the camp, Yuki started to think over what had been said between them. She had shared her memories with him, or rather the revelation of her memories and what she was and what kind of power that she had. She did not know why she did this, but the only explanation could be that her father had told her that she could trust Sesshomaru. Then she went on to the other part of what he said. She though for a while and decided that they finally had a proposition. Sesshomaru was going to protect and keep her secret, only if she agreed to grant him a wish that was within her power.
She could only imagine what the demon lord in front of her would think of for a wish. I mean, he seems cold, heartless, cruel, and vile, yet he did save a young human from being eaten by wolves. He had brought the young girls back to life, so he could not be all that bad. She still wondered what he would want with a wish, however.
When they got back to the camp, Rin and Jaken were eating and she did not want to interrupt them so she went over to Ah-Un. Or she tried. The only problem was that Sesshomaru still hadn't let her go. As he sat down, he brought her up close to him. "Listen, hanyou. There is a hot spring around fifty yards away and you reek, so I want you to go a bathe yourself. You can take as long as you like, up until dawn. You must be back then. Understood?"
"Yes, Sesshomaru-Sama." She had been wondering when he would let her bathe. He let her go and she walked immediately toward the hot spring. She knew where it was because she could smell the stench of sulfur coming from it. When she got there, she made sure that no one else was anywhere around and undressed, quickly getting into the water. As she sunk down in, you could see the glint of something.
She had taken a knife with her and laid it down somewhere close while she washed her body. When she finished, she picked it up again and wondered briefly how long it had been since she had done this. It didn't matter. Desperate times call for desperate measures. She took the knife and quickly sliced small cuts into her wrists. Two or three on each one and let her blood soak away into the stream. After five minutes, she got out and got dressed, heading back towards camp.
When she got there, she went straight over to Ah-Un and laid down by his side, seeming to fall asleep instantly. It had been a long day and after the collar had shocked her, she needed the rest. It had totally warn her out.
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